If Tamdhu 12 is your bottle, the fair question is whether anything standing near it is worth reaching for, and what you would give up to do it. The short answer is The Balvenie DoubleWood 12, which gives a Tamdhu 12 drinker about 92% of what their own bottle does, for 83% of its price — honey, almonds and a spicy sherry that land close to home without asking as much of you.
Tamdhu 12 itself is matured in oloroso casks, and it drinks that way. The nose is on the dry side, with citrus and hazelnut over a dry sherry; the palate fills out and sweetens into cinnamon and banoffee pie; and the medium finish carries jaffa oranges, hot chocolate and a touch of tannic oak. If three words hold it, they are oloroso, banoffee and jaffa.
This week Tamdhu 12 is $126 at Dan Murphy's. Worked back to the pour, that is about $5.31 a standard drink across roughly twenty-four in the bottle, which sits a little under the $6.28 you would pay per standard drink for a pint at the pub.
So what would the drinkers of the bottles nearest it give for Tamdhu 12, each starting from what they already pay for their own? Across those drinkers the answers run from $94 to $184, and at $126 Tamdhu 12 sits inside what the drinkers of the bottles nearest it would pay. The one who eases it back hardest is the Glenfarclas 15 drinker, who would give about $118 — 64% of what their own bottle costs them — marking it down for its sherry and dried fruit and for being younger than theirs. Turned the other way, a Tamdhu 12 drinker puts Glenfarclas 15 at about 86% of their own bottle, marking that one down for its sherry and dried fruit and for being older than theirs.
If you do want a change, three bottles stand in without much fuss.
Aberlour 12 Double Cask, usually around $113, leads with orange peel, banana and chocolate. To a Tamdhu 12 drinker it gives about 93% of what the Tamdhu does, for 90% of its price, and we have seen it anywhere from $99 to $120.
Aberlour 14, around $140, is peaches, marzipan and toffee, rounded with no rough edges. To a Tamdhu 12 drinker it gives about 92% of what the Tamdhu does, for 111% of its price.
Tamdhu 15, around $202, goes deeper into molasses, orange peel and Turkish Delight. To a Tamdhu 12 drinker it gives about 90% of what the Tamdhu does, for 160% of its price.
Who is each one for? If Tamdhu 12 is already your pour, nothing here asks you to move; $126 buys the oloroso richness you came for. If you lean toward Balvenie DoubleWood 12, it is the closest thing in this group and sits lower on price, so it is the easy reach. The Glenfarclas 15 drinker who wants that dried-fruit, Christmas-cake weight stays where they are, though Tamdhu 12 will feel familiar on a quieter night. The Aberlour 12 Double Cask drinker gets the brightest, most orange-led pour, and it sits lowest of the three on price. The Aberlour 14 drinker who likes a rounder, creamier middle finds it a touch above Tamdhu 12. And the Tamdhu 15 drinker, after the longest and most layered version of this house, finds it highest of the lot.
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